[UPDATE Wednesday 2:50 p.m.] One Badly Injured in a Side by Side Rollover in the Palo Verde Area of Southern Humboldt
[Background photo by Dottie Simmons]
The victim was being carried to the Palo Verde Fire Station in Humboldt County in a vehicle.
Reach air ambulance is accepting the mission and responding to the Palo Verde area.
Below is the badly broken scanner report of the incident.
Please remember that this story is unfolding. Information is being reported as we gather it. However, some of the information coming from witnesses and initial official reports could be wrong. We will do our best to get the facts but, in the case that something is inaccurate, we will update with correct information as soon as we can.
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Below is the donation information for the fire department responding but a full list will be added to the comment section as soon as possible.
PALO VERDE FIRE
P O Box 1381,
Redway, Ca 95560
UPDATE 8:21 p.m.: CPR is in progress, according to a message relayed by the dispatcher to emergency personnel via the scanner.
UPDATE 10:49 p.m.: The air ambulance was canceled after the victim was pronounced deceased.
UPDATE Wednesday 2:50 p.m.: Fatal Crash Last Night After UTV Rolls Near Island Mountain
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ALDERPOINT FIRE
POB 164
ALDERPOINT, 95511
BLUE LAKE FIRE
PO Box 245
Blue Lake, CA 95525
BRICELAND FIRE
POB 1249
REDWAY, 95560.
BRIDGEVILLE FIRE
P.O. Box 4
Bridgeville, CA 95526
CARLOTTA FIRE
PO Box 33
Carlotta, CA 95528
COFFEE CREEK FIRE
HC 2 Box 3951
Trinity Center, CA, 96091
DOWN RIVER VFD
140 Fire House Rd
Big Bar, CA 96010
FERNDALE FIRE
PO Box 485
Ferndale Ca. 95536
FIELDBROOK FIRE
4584 Fieldbrook Rd.
Fieldbrook, CA. 95519
FORTUNA FIRE
320 S. Fortuna Blvd.
Fortuna, CA 95540
FRUITLAND RIDGE FIRE
POB 87
Myers Flat 95554
Douglas City Volunteer Fire Department
PO Box 10
Douglas City, CA 96024
Phone: (530) 623-5110
GARBERVILLE FIRE
PO Box 288
Garberville, CA 95542
GASQUET FIRE Department
PO Box 85
Gasquet, CA 95543
HAWKINS BAR VFD
PO Box 485
Salyer, CA 95563
HAYFORK VFD
195 Hyampom Rd
Hayfork, CA 96041
HONEYDEW FIRE
P.O. Box 74
Honeydew, CA, 95545
HOOPA FIRE and Office of Emergency Services
P.O. Box 369
11121 HWY 96
Hoopa, CA, 95546
HYAMPOM FIRE
22509 Hyampom Rd.
Hyampom, CA 96046
HYDESVILLE FIRE
3494 CA 36
Hydesville, CA 95547
JUNCTION CITY FIRE
PO Box 418
Junction City, CA 96048
KETTENPOM ZENIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
Po Box 100
Zenia, CA 95595
LAYTONVILLE FIRE
44950 Willis Ave
Laytonville Ca 95454
LEGGETT FIRE
P.O. Box 191
Leggett ca 95585
Lewiston Fire Department
PO Box 113
Lewiston, CA 96052
Phone: (530) 778-3711
LOLETA FIRE
567 Park St.
Loleta, Ca. 95551
(707) 733-5407
MAPLE CREEK FIRE
15933 Maple Creek Rd.
Korbel, CA 95550
MIRANDA FIRE
POB 160
Miranda, Ca 95553
MYERS FLAT FIRE
PO Box 131
Myers Flat, CA 95554
ORLEANS FIRE
38162 Highway 96
(PO Box 312)
Orleans, CA 95556
Or you can donate via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/orleansvolunteers
PALO VERDE FIRE
P O Box 1381,
Redway, Ca 95560
PETROLIA FIRE
(Donate online)
98 Sherman Street.
P.O. Box 169
Petrolia, CA
95558-0169
PHILLIPSVILLE FIRE
PO Box 39
Phillipsville, CA 95559
PIERCY FIRE
80401 Highway 271/ PO Box 206
Piercy, CA, 95587
POST MOUNTAIN FIRE
PO Box 1026
Hayfork, CA 96041
REDCREST FIRE
PO Box 27
Redcrest, CA 95569
REDWAY FIRE
PO Box 695
REDWAY, CA 95560
RIO DELL FIRE
50 West Center St.
Rio Dell, CA 95562
SALMON CREEK FIRE
PO Box 662
Miranda, CA 95553
Salyer Volunteer Fire Department
PO Box 235
Salyer, CA 95563
Phone: (530) 629-2778
SCOTIA FIRE
PO Box 185
Scotia, CA 95565
SHELTER COVE FIRE
9126 Shelter Cove Road
Whitethorn, CA 95589
SPROWEL CREEK FIRE
PO Box 2122
Redway, CA 95560
SOUTHERN TRINITY VFD, (a bi-county organization serving both eastern Humboldt and Southern Trinity)
P.O. Box 16
Mad River, Ca 95552
SOUTHERN TRINITY AREA RESCUE (STAR), a bi-county EMS/volunteer ambulance service
321 Van Duzen Rd
Bridgeville Ca 95526
TELEGRAPH RIDGE FIRE
PO Box 1152
Redway, CA 95560
Trinity Center Volunteer Fire Department
PO Box 191
Trinity Center, CA 96091
Phone: (530) 266-3420
Weaverville Fire Department
PO Box 447
Weaverville, CA 96093
Phone: (530) 623-6156
WESTHAVEN FIRE Department
PO Box 2143,
Trinidad, CA, CA 95570
WHALE GULCH FIRE
76850B Usal Road
Whitethorn, CA 95589
WHITETHORN FIRE
PO Box 485
Whitethorn, CA 95589
WILLOW CREEK FIRE
P.O. Box 51
Willow Creek, CA 95573
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Damn sad VFD need to beg for money.
Best regards for the guy and his family but CPR in progress way out there is not good odds.
Local departments should be flush with COVID relief ! Gosh it appears not many departments made requests! Some of these giveaways are really impactful and some are just unbelievable . I reckon Every vfd needs something .why did they not make requests! I mean even Bear River Rancheria scored $21,600 for mold remediation 😂 ..The list of recipients below.
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https://www.hafoundation.org/Giving/COVID19-Fund-Grants
Grants from the COVID-19 Regional Response Fund
We are using a streamlined grants process to identify needs and make awards quickly from this fund. There is no application process.
Flush with relief? I thought this fund was for masks, and other PPE. I will look at your link, but you are making a bold claim to say fire departments need not ask any farther than Humboldt Area Foundation.
Read through the list. Here’s a summary:
Out of $1,899,210 or so given, $85,600, or 4.5%,or less than 5 cents per dollar were given to Fire organizations. Of that $38,300 went to Humboldt Bay and Arcata, and Crescent city. $39,000 went to Trinity Center, and Southern Trinity Ambulance. Only $8,600 went the Humboldt County Chiefs Assoc. to be distributed as PPE to “39 volunteer” groups. That is $220.50 in value to Palo Verde.
Obvious church groups recieved $70,000.
Since it sounds like you work for HAF, I recommend using the mailing list provided by Kym to target your outreach to these Volunteer Fire Organizations. Our local Volunteer Fire has been turned down by HAF in years past, in our attempts for assistance in updating our fire engines. I will inform the group that you have a new-found enthusiasm for helping out!
Too bad drug dealers such as Kym and other “medical marijuana” growers don’t tythe. If the greedy CAPITALISTS drug dealers funded their local VFD, Humboldt county would have the best fire departments in the nation!
Dude, [edit] What have you contributed besides snarky untrue comments?!
Palo verde fire department is very well funded by the community. And very well staffed.
Most niegbors have thier own turnout gear and are fundraisers are very well attended.
Not sure where your talking about.
I remember an article written by a calfire chief about watching a car wash for fire department in Leggett.
They shut down after an hour he asked them why.
They said ,ee allready made what we need from three cars.
Check yourself
Or educate your self
Mark switzer
Pvvfd
The growers have allways given genorously to community needs.
I believe it was mostly growers that bought the community park for everyone to enjoy.
Hooray to our OG Homie TAD for making the land available at Tads Flat for the Palo Verde VFD Station… Hark back to the Barn Burners of old that helped raise the money to make it happen…. Shout out to R S and J F for wearing the White Helmet and carrying forward! Hats off to all the homies that roll out to the calls day or night…. “protecting ourselves from ourselves” Without the OG back to the land growers and those who came after there would be no fire service in the hills of Humboldt.
my bad on the spelling…. its been a couple of decades… “They” were good people Thad was…. “they” were a friend of mine all those years ago back when it was just a flat.. ! If you know then you know “them” ❤ .
Thad’s Flat was not where the fire department was built. You also don’t seem to have current initials for who is wearing hats
Kym is the one is the one who said to donate to all of the VFD. She should know how well the Volunteer Fire Departments are funded. How many ladder trucks does Palo Verde have? You should have at least a couple. If not how many of your Fire people are being paid a living wage ($15) from the community? Drug dealers don’t care about anybody but themselves. Greedy basturds!
you must have never been to Palo Verde it is an hour from town and more than a half hour off the pavement . Ladder trucks would not work very well there or be very usefull. Wildland type 3 engines, quick attack type 6 brush trucks and Water tenders are what is needed out there and thats what they have. Ever driven a pavement queen fire apparatus in the woods? Clearly not. Also the community there are not all “drug dealers” most are Homesteaders and mutligeneration back to the landers…. Additionally volunteer fire fighters are just that volunteers working for free for their community. Over 70% of the nations firefighters are volunteers…. Most of the paid departments are in urban areas where the population is over 10,000 not the rural areas where most are volunteers. 85% of the nations fire departments are volunteer.
Most of the firefighters, though not all, in SoHum are growers.
This is my son and partner in my cannabis grow after the fire a few weeks ago.
What do you look like after a fire? Hopefully, you look like you worked as hard as my kid did.
Also, a cannabis nutrient company just donated $50,000 to help our watershed purchase a new fire engine. And locals, mostly growers, have already paid the first year of payments on the engine.
Dude, you have no idea how rough it would be in the hills if the growers didn’t kick down as much as they do.
Don’t get me wrong, there are folks–both growers and not growers who don’t do their part. But most of our VFD’s are filled with growers who donate, fundraise and train to help their communities.
Keep typing dude. Make it clear what you do and do not know.
Dude, check with Salmon Creek Fire. Our family is a large supporter of our local fire department and we donate to a few others too. My husband was president of the local fire department a few years ago.
Besides the VFD’s, may I suggest donating to Southern Humboldt Technical Rescue also?
Why do you make the assumption that local growers don’t contribute to and support the community? Because it suits your pre-conceived notions of contempt and hatred. Years ago, illegal growers contributed but COULD NOT have grip-and-grin symbolic big check hand-offs to VFDs because they were illegal!!! Get it? Shame, shame on you. What is your contribution to the community?
Folks, you need to understand that people like Dude live in the MAGAverse, a domain where facts as known in the observable universe don’t exist; a domain where you just make up whatever claims justify your prejudices and think they are real. Generally these people are immune from any sort of logic or facts from the observable universe.
Put your money where your mouth is…or buy your mouth some Pepto. 🤏🏻 Dude
dead…
i had to wait for the coroner until i got to go past them 10 pm
dont know who killes themselve
This was not likely a suicide.
Sorry for the inconvenience of the volunteer and emergency vehicles at scene. It wasn’t ideal or safe location for safety of anyone there.
on drewry ranch after the cattle guard
Very sad to learn that the person has died from their accident. Condolences to their family and friends. Please donate to the PALO VERDE FIRE DEPARTMENT. All the volunteer fire departments do a wonderful job helping us in time of need.
Sad outcome to this tragic event.
I was very sad to read that the 30 year old man driving his side by side had made an unsafe turn and was thrown out a died. People if you own a side by side, please use the seatbelts, they can save your life. Let this man’s story of what can happen, be a reminder to buckle up before driving. May he RIP.